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Virginia Foxx: the system was broken, it is broken. We came in and inherited a system for teachers, nurses, all these people we should…

On the recordMay 25, 2022
the system was broken, it is broken. We came in and inherited a system for teachers, nurses, all these people we should be thanking during the pandemic, 98 percent of them were denied.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Foxx discusses the failures of the education loan system for public servants.

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